 Welcome to another edition of Dog Talkin' Coffee with me Richard Hines. Fire! Where'd it come from? Sit. Down. Down. Sit. Welcome to another edition of Dog Talkin' Coffee with me Richard Hines. And today, I just want to show you what it should look like. Okay? When taking a protection dog or two to a whole new place they've never seen before. They don't know these people, the decoys. So all of it is new. These two dogs really haven't even worked in a year, year and a half. So they're a little rusty as well. But I just want to share with you a few different things about this. Okay? One, when you have great foundation and again these two dogs have not worked that much in a year and a half. Very little. Okay? So starting young, putting all this obedience and protection work on them. You should work your protection dog in different areas, not just your house. Okay? To really solidify that your dog is fluent. It is ready at any time, anywhere to protect you and do what it's got to do. Okay? So it's very important that you work those dogs in different areas so they don't freeze up. They go, what? Here? We don't do that here. What's going on? Alright? So that's the first thing to this I'm going to show you. Is these two dogs at this brand new place, they've never been, new decoy, they've never seen in their lives. The second factor is, and I've had this question quite a bit and I understand, what is the difference between what these dogs are doing and what a sport dog would do? And it's night and day. Okay? So first of all, we know that these two will protect for real. We've done hidden sleeves, we've done all that. We don't care. We've built them to not care about that stuff. And when it's asked for, they do it. No matter equipment is on, it doesn't matter who it is, who the decoy is, strange place, not, okay? The other thing is that this routine that you're going to see between the owner and the decoy, neither one of them knew what was going to happen as far as it's not orchestrated. They had no idea going into this what they were going to do at any moment. They just threw things, okay, at the dogs. So the decoy would just walk out and I'm going to show you the whole scenario in a second. The decoy would just walk out and start acting out aggressively. And the owner didn't, he just started doing things, right? And moving around and they would just, you know, at random the decoy went, well, maybe I'll attack him now. Okay, so there's no set pattern to what they were doing here. The dogs had no idea where the owner was going to move to, when the decoy was going to attack, if he was going to attack. So the whole thing is a realistic outlook on sports where the dogs know this is the routine, this is what we do, this is when you'll do this, okay? And it makes it very easy for the dog having the routine of knowing exactly what's coming and even in ring sport, they still, even in Mondio ring or whatever, even though they try to change things up, there's routines, right? The field might change, but he's still in heel, right? When the decoys come out to mess with a Mondio ring dog, it's the exercise now, the dog recognizes the due decoys, this is what's going to happen, wait for the touch, okay? I get on an object just like I do at home and I have to guard this, even though it's in a foreign place, I've never been here, but the exercises are the same, okay? There's not much for the dog to think about, okay? It's better than the other sports that have none of that, it's just a strange field, okay? But not even close to the same as these two dogs having no idea of anything that was going to be thrown at them today right here in this scenario, okay? And hold it together and not make mistakes, not go overboard with enthusiasm and aggression towards the person, losing focus on keeping control, all right? And the other thing is you're going to see back to back that the owner just, and the decoy, throw things at these two dogs from one thing to another to go back to guard there, to attack off verbal attacks, I'll go through it in a second, but so there's big differences, okay? Between what these two dogs are doing here and what a sport dog would do in its routines. These two dogs have to think now and hold their nerves in check, not knowing what is going to happen right now and whatever is going to go on and what the owner is going to tell them to do, okay? So here I want you to watch this and then I'll discuss it a little more, okay? So phenomenal perfection, okay? The guy comes out, the dogs weren't ready for it, they go into action, the dog stayed where they were supposed to stay on the owner when as soon as the decoy made a move, they just took off and hit him, and then you get things like when they're told to out, any little move from the decoy, the two dogs automatically are allowed to attack again, okay? And then you see differences where the one time the decoy slightly moves and the two dogs attack, tells them out, then the decoy there did a good job by now telling the owner with a head signal that he's not going to move, he wants to see on command now if they're fluent with the command of attack so he stays still and the owner tells them to attack and they attack right away instead of looking for a body movement, okay? So we have many things going on here of the dogs looking for signals, waiting for commands, and all in one total routine, right? of this, to this, to this, to this, then to guard them on the floor, okay? And then to go attack when he was attacked away. The outs, the returns, okay, all in one session they're consecutive and sport dogs do not do that much, right? It's not even half of that. So you're really testing these dogs with their fluency and their duration, right? Their stability to over and over and over, wait for this, wait for this, now we attack, now we out, we're told, now we were told to return. Then we, okay, wait for a flinch, there's a lot going on and the dogs did beautifully and they haven't worked in so long, right? So just wanted to give you that because a lot of people wouldn't realize what a big deal this is and it's not just one dog, it's two dogs working beautifully in synchronicity, right? As if they're one, so it doesn't get better than that. And again, not a routine, dogs have no idea what's coming or what exercise or to go by to return, it's all a mishmash, they have no idea what's going to happen in this whole scenario. So you're prepping the dog for its mental, right? Discipline its capability of thinking on the fly that if anything ever happens in life, these dogs can stay steady, can think, stay clear headed and not fail, bail out, get confused when the time comes for them to be called on for the owner at any moment, okay? So that was a huge test there for these two and the owner wanted to see how they were going to do, just throwing this at them, not knowing the place, the people, it's just a random attack, the dogs never saw that coming, had no idea that that was coming. So, beautiful perfection and that is what protection dogs should be, right? Know their stuff so well and have so many dynamics to their game that most protection dogs are not even half of what these dogs have, right? Or the control. So real life, real scenario, anything can happen, it's not a dog on a leash going rah rah rah rah rah rah rah, or just going boh boh, bite them, right, and those takes off, and goes, and bites, how many out of them, right? And these girls have much more to this as well that was not displayed here. So phenomenal and just a lesson, prep your dogs, prep your dogs, to get their skills really good.